Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-20
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In Illinois there are more colleges
than in the whole Of Europe. and one
college in Europe has more students
than the whole state of Illinois.
DR.. Cogswell proposes to found a
pol technic school in San Francisco,
that shall be open to any boy or girl in
California. He will endow it with prop
erty worth 81 900, 000.
Miss Agnata Ramsay, a daughter Of
Sir James Ramsay, the Scotch baronet,
took first honors in the classical course
at Glrton college, Cambridge, England.
She was the only student oi either sex
to pass in the first division, and was
:udly cheered by her competitors
Then her rank was announced. Her
ge is twenty years.
Che Concord philosophers are en-
gagged in their annual attempt to grasp
the idea of inn1ity. If they have not
forgotten the.r algebra .bey ought to
Euow that i~niinity is nothing but Il
figure 8 lying on its side. That is az
near as they or anybody else will ever
come to grasplng the idea, and they
might as well accept the situation.
President Laughlin will sever his
connection with Hiram college at COM
mencement JuEe 16, and President
Wo0ley, the new president, will assume
tho l3ItI.a. nf his nni.a =, G,A+,, -.
next. 1t is interesting to observe that
Professor Laughlin will 90 from Hiram
To fill the chair OF ancient languages at
Garfield university, Wichita. Kansas.
Mills college, the Wellesly of the Pa
citic slope, was the recipient OF n gift
Of 10000, endowing Il chair Of mental
and moral philosophy, from Mrs. Susan
l.. Mills, at the last commencement.
The chair will be called the Mark Hop
kins chair of philosophy. This makes
Il total of $3.50. GOO which DIR. Mills and
his wife have given this fine institution
for the education of women.
The university of Kings college,
Windsor, Nova Scotia. i, the oldest of
all the British Nor,h American coll
leges. The royal charter under which
it was founded in 1888 explicitly pro-
vides that its academical habits shall be
the same as those of the university O
Oxford. And its e%ncenia is conducted
every year with all the pomr and cir
cumstance of an Oxford encenia. The
Rev. DR.. issac Brock, Oxford, is the
president.
The a~nyisabiIity of adopting a dis
|tinctive dress for the students of the
university of Pennsylvania has been
under consideration for some time past
by the authorities of that institution.
1t is proposed that each student shall
wear a garb by which it can be readily
seen which department he attends. and
whether he be an undergraduate or q
graduate. The matter was recently
put into the hands OF n committee
whose proposition has peen fully APP
proved by the trustees and professors
of the university.
The college of William and Mary at
Williamsburg. Va, is the Oldest college
IN the whole country excepting Har-
ward. having been founded in 1898 by
the royal grant. 1t nourished inn
mensely during the succeeding cen
fury, supported by the Virginia legis-
lature and private endowments, and
under its roof were trained some of the
brightest intellects of the land. Thomas
Jefferson, James Madi nn. James Mon
roe, Peyton Randolph, John Tyler,
John Marshall and four ~ the slgners
Of the declaration were a.nyng its grad
yates. But its decline began long ago.
The most OF It's remaining property was
destroyed during the civil war, and the
venerable institution which nurtured the
revolutionary statesmen, which COM
m'ssioned George Washington rs II
civil engineer, and to which he gave
his last public service as chancellor,
has now only n professor" and not
a single student. Its halls are desert
ed.